Little known fact about me...I was blessed Mormon when I was born. My mother is Mormon, and originally from Utah. I didn't know this until later in life when I was searching for a baptism certificate before I got married. I didn't grow up going to temple and I didn't know a lot about the faith until I did some research, but technically I was Mormon. I love genealogy and have been working on our family trees, it turns out I come from a long line of Mormons, and some of my relatives knew with Joseph Smith and made the long journey from Illinois to Utah. Also, there is quite a bit of polygamy in my family tree when it was allowed as part of the Mormon faith. It was interesting to me to read about polygamy from a more recent point of view, and to learn about the dark side of polygamy, and why it was ultimately outlawed. I loved how Anna told her story and admire her for her bravery in having survived growing up with such a public polygamist father. In...
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